Re: x configuration on sony vaio

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

"William F. Dowling" wrote:
> 
> Eric Richardson writes:
>  > amael wrote:
>  > >
>  > > okay, i just figured this out. [...]
>  > There is a file /etc/X11/Xserver. The first line states the server name
>  > like XF86_SVGA. Please check this as you should not have to create a
>  > symlink. Your method circumvents the way it is suppose to work in
>  > Debian.
> 
> Thanks for mentioneing this Eric.  I was wondering what the message
> amael reported was talking about : " ... rootonly ..." 

I don't really know about this message - I'm pretty new as well. There
is a debian-laptop list as well in case anyone is interested.

> This is what
> my /etc/X11/Xserver has, maybe useful for amael:
>   $ cat /etc/X11/Xserver
>   /etc/X11/X
>   Console
> 
>   The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server.
>   The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
>   RootOnly
>   Console      (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console)
>   Anybody
> 
> Will
> 
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> William F. Dowling
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